Those of you who have Amazon Prime and regularly take advantage of its awesome 20% preorder discount may want to act fast: the company is terminating this specific feature on August 28! So, if there are any games coming out in the near future that you know for a fact

Mega Man X…Errr…I mean 20XX just blasted its way onto consoles July 10 and what a rush the game is! This Mega Man inspired platforming treat released on the PC back in August 2017 after an Early Access phase that felt like forever and if you couldn’t tell from the first line of this

While Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon may only exist because of the incredible success of its parent game in blowing away its Kickstarter goals, letting its status as a side-project keep you from buying it would be a terrible mistake. It may be a side-project, sure, but it’s definitely a good one.

If you’re a fan of the Sonic games but skipped out on last year’s Sonic Mania because you were hoping for a physical release, then you’re in luck: the game will be receiving a physical release on the PlayStation 4, XBOX One, and Nintendo Switch on July 17, 2018! What’s more, this

In honor of the Blue Bomber’s 30th anniversary, Mega Man 11 is heading to consoles and the PC on October 2, 2018. This new entry into the long-running series of action-platformers is the first original game released since 2010’s retro-inspired Mega Man 10. After having released two games that were inspired by the

Capcom just recently announced a slew of new things in honor of Mega Man’s 30th anniversary (wow, has it really been that long?), including Nintendo Switch ports of Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 and 2, new versions of Mega Man X1 through X8 on modern platforms, and something entirely new altogether: a brand-new Mega Man game!

TITLE: XING: The Land Beyond DEVELOPER: White Lotus Interactive PUBLISHER: White Lotus Interactive GENRE: Adventure PLATFORM: PC (Steam); Also on PS4 RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2017 XING: The Land Beyond is a first-person, VR-compatible adventure game from White Lotus Interactive available for the PC and PlayStation 4. It’s a non-combat, exploration-focused game

While the announcement of Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 only felt inevitable given the success of the first collection, this new package feels a bit incomplete to me. This time we are getting treated to Mega Man 7, MM8, MM9, and MM10, but where is Mega Man’s other 16-bit outing? Mega Man & Bass (originally released in

Global publisher 505 Games just announced today that it was entering into an agreement for worldwide publishing rights to Koji “IGA” Igarashi’s latest opus Bloodstained. Last year, Bloodstained raised over $5,500,000 through crowdfunding on Kickstarter with more than 65,000 backers. Early demos of the game have been very well-received and already gamers have been

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